#upsetting!

[jaronofthebored]

they really just spring this on you without any dialogue accompanying it or anything huh. It really just lets it sink in under your skin. ...I don't think I want it to sink in anymore oh no no no

[susansontag]

some people won’t eat oranges and peaches because it makes their fingers sticky… a small example of their overarching approach to life

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

Heartbreaking- Local Man Somehow Lost Weight Despite Having Done Fuckall In The Past Year And A Half Besides Sitting On The Couch And Eating Fries

[menlove-archive]

Andy: Just like most artists, really. I mean, there’s obviously no reason at all why you should answer any questions about what your songs are about, because the songs should be the statement, and obviously when you start talking about the particular meanings of something, without the music, without the context, it doesn’t sound right.

I certainly noticed with Brian Ferry’s songs that he expresses, reveals, far more of himself in songs than ever in a conversation, and he does it in a way that it’s always surprising – a quite extraordinary amount of revealing things. That’s particularly him. I know that that doesn’t apply to you.

Paul: But, you know, isn’t that what a lot of stuff, this “so called art” is about, isn’t it? You know that someone in a picture will be able to do something, express something you can’t do. Yeah, I think I find it easy, I mean, the same way a lot of people have stutters but don’t stutter when they sing a song. That always amazed me that, and I think it is the same way that you can have things said in a song. I mean, I would never have looked at John Lennon and kinda said, “I love you”, because it wasn’t about that, you know, it was nothing about that. But in a song, in the particular way they’re written today, I kinda easily say, “I love you”, almost as a throw-away, because it doesn’t seem embarrassing in that context. I can always deny that it was ever written about him. Burn the tapes, and delete the…

Paul McCartney, interviewed by Andy Mackay in 1982 about his album "Tug of War" (source)

(note: bold mine, but he did trail off there/was interrupted by Andy by another question. it's unclear which one from the transcript. but nothing has been cut off)

[cuteceltwunk]

Millia and Zato-ONE

[securityunit-ese]

don't like don't read also applies to people talking about how they find upsetting characters upsetting, you know.

[105-hill-top-road]

someone is using the FR3-D1 system incorrectly